[TheRealThing]

If you are suggesting that conservatives have never used "white people anger and fear" in advertisement and policy targeted at stereotype of and villification of black folks and immigrants, your claim of "I've been watching lo these many years" falls flat.

The only test of use of identity politics is, of course, not whether there's been a riot. I refer you to the "law and order" campaigns of Richard Nixon. Look at the ads. Geez, it seems foolish to even be debating this. Yes, King's statement is marvelous. And, through use of peaceful protest, his movement applied social pressure at the level of appeal to conscience. It took legislation, and federal troops, to usher in a direction toward King's dream.

Simply because examples given don't suit your purposes, TRT, does not mean no examples were given. President Trump has equated Putin's Russia with the United States, suggesting that they have their policy of killing and brutality at the highest levels, as do we. Now, Noam Chomsky may agree with that, but I cannot believe, TRT, you accept that analysis.

I'm not suggesting a thing, I's stating it outright. You bounce around off liberal rationales like ping pong balls in a lotto machine. Land on something and define it for a change. The manner in which authorities must deal with civil disobedience is never going to be Emily Post there Sombrero. But just standing back and establishing a perimeter around the property damage and anarchy hasn't done a lot to stop it now has it? We should have law and order whether in the days of Nixon or today. AFTR, it is a leftist slur to say that the non-violent civil rights marches had anything to do with left or right wing politics. But if that argument could in fact be made, all those who lined up with the party of Lincoln can say they at least have history on their side. Troops don't change men's hearts, they do however go a long way towards keeping the peace.

This is a nation established on the guarantee of safety and the common good, not just establishing a fire break for rabble rousers and student perpetrated crime. I asked for specific examples of right wing anarchy, and you can't give them because they don't exist. The best shot lefties ever managed against the Tea Party for example, was the invisible spitting incident involving Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. I've watched the video enough times to know it didn't happen as reported.

Rioting is the result of destructive rhetoric, only one side does it, and I've heard said rhetoric now for years. We've all seen countess riots played out on the news over the years, (especially the past 8) and all of them attributable to the left, ONLY. And even at that, the only way it has ever taken hold was due to the left's success in coupling racism and politics. There is no rhetoric calling for protests from the right, and there hasn't been so much as one riot. Again, if you can provide the historical evidence put it up.

I haven't been to a security briefing for a while, so I don't know what Trump was talking about. But in view of your past criticisms of US military exploits, I would have thought you'd have been right there with him. I know foreign policy requires clear minded objectives. And those objectives need to be guided by a proper understanding of Biblically based morality if we intend to be successful. Nobody wants to see other peoples be exploited for any perceived advantage to the US. God would never bless such an endeavor. This is where I hope and pray Pastor Jeffress, Southern Evangelical Seminary President Richard Land, and Dr James Dobson will be able to influence the President's thinking. And yet by contrast from a foreign policy standpoint, I believe the past 8 years have been the most destructive to the well being of this nation and of the world of any since our inception.